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...muddied church waters, Archimandrite David lined up three sympathetic Russian bishops whose spiritual powers were, after all, as efficacious as those of any other Orthodox churchmen. In St. George's Church last week these, with the aid of four Orthodox priests, consecrated Samuel David. With his gilt-&-scarlet crown firmly on his swart head, Archbishop David thereupon waited for the Patriarch of Antioch to grant him jurisdiction, to which he felt canonically entitled. Failing that, a schism was forecast among confused U. S. Syrians...
...Gateway of India," waited British bigwigs and a selection of resplendent Indian princes. For hours Lord Linlithgow, though not yet officially Viceroy, shook hands with various delegations. Finally, with his lady and his daughters Anne, 22, Joan, 20, and Doreen, 16, he rode between lines of the viceregal scarlet-coated bodyguard to Government House at Malabar Point...
...feet-washing entirely, refused even to watch the almsgiving. British repugnance for the "awful Georges" was notably obliterated by the late George V, who four years ago revived the King's personal role in the old rite, watched in Westminster Abbey while his Almoner distributed doeskin purses of scarlet & white thongs to 67 hand-picked old men of the Parish of Westminster, 67 old women, the King being 67 years old. Since a set of specially minted Maundy Pence is a coin collectors' item worth $1, the old folks get a little more than face value for their...
...small that they filter through the pores of unglazed porcelain. Filterable likewise, and invisible by means of the most potent microscopes yet invented, are 25 other substances which are known to cause specific diseases (infantile paralysis, common cold, mumps) and 21 substances which are presumed to cause in man scarlet fever, trachoma, encephalitis, influenza, measles, German measles, multiple sclerosis, psoriasis, venereal warts...
...fall, a blow, a scare, a rage, a chill, writes Dr. Taussig, may cause spontaneous abortion. Spontaneous abortions may also result from defective ova, weakness of the placenta, nervous wombs, malformed pelvis, dietary deficiencies, endocrine disturbances. Half the women who suffer from typhoid fever, cholera, scarlet fever, smallpox, erysipelas, sleeping sickness and malaria during pregnancy involuntarily abort. Pneumonia is especially feticidal...